This unapologetic foodie likes Butchertown Grocery just fine LEO's Eats with Robin Garr Butchertown Grocery’s avocado tartine. So I surfed into LEO Weekly online the other day, and
hey, what’s this? Some guy is picking on Butchertown Grocery! And wait! It gets even worse! He’s hatin’ on foodies!
This all seemed very wrong, and it called for a fact check. Just as quick as that, we took our friends Bill and Margaret over to Butchertown Grocery for dinner, and you know what? Despite what that online rant had led me to believe, I couldn’t find any cultural appropriation or microagressions anywhere.
More about out meal shortly, but first, let’s take a look at that “foodie” thing. This writer is not the first person I’ve heard who finds the term offensive, but most of those who do so strike me as epic snobs. I’ll stand with the linguist and etymology expert Barry Gopnik, a contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, who says the word has been around since the 1980s.
“A ‘foodie’ is someone who is interested in food and drink,” Gopnik wrote. “The term is a modern one, less pretentious and mostly replacing the term ‘gourmet.’”
That’s my take, too. I’d rather be a “foodie” than a “gourmet,” because it’s a simple, open and affirming moniker that welcomes everyone in without an entrance exam. That’s my position, and I’m sticking to it.
Now, let’s talk about Butchertown Grocery. We’ll begin at the end: You might think that the gift of a small brownie presented upon one’s departure in a little cardboard box tied up with silver string might not be all that memorable. You would be wrong. This seeming afterthought, consumed the next day, was a cubical shell of crisp chocolate that gave way to the bite to reveal a rich, creamy interior reminiscent of the finest fudge. Was it the best brownie I ever ate? Yes, it was
that good.
Exposed brick, old wood, and undraped hard white marble tables make for an evocative if somewhat noisy environment in the prettily renovated old commercial building that originally housed Gunkel’s Grocery in the late 1800s and more recently was home to the Blind Pig. Service was on point, and the drinks program well chosen.
Mary and I were happy with a Negroni and a Campari-and-soda ($9 each), and I later summoned a glass of Sonoma-Cutrer Chardonnay ($15) to go with my meal. A bread plate featuring Blue Dog baguette and cereal bread with whipped sorghum butter kept us busy while we studied the menu, and soon dinner was on its way. ...
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http://www.leoweekly.com/category/food-drink/Butchertown Grocery 1076 E. Washington St.
742-8315
http://butchertowngrocery.comhttps://facebook.com/butchertowngrocery Robin Garr’s rating: 86 points